Dec 30 Watch 53:50 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 30, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Vladimir Putin slams U.S. expulsion of diplomats but says he will not follow suit. Also: A Syrian cease-fire is holding, the political analysis of David Brooks and David Corn, the year's best songs, looking back at… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 3:48 News Wrap: In Syria, fragile cease-fire appears to hold By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, Russian president Vladimir Putin slammed U.S. sanctions and the expulsion of Russian diplomats over election-season hacking attacks, but said he would not answer in kind by expelling U.S. diplomats. Also, a fragile cease-fire appeared to… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 6:19 Why deterring Putin from foreign meddling is practically impossible By PBS News Hour On Friday, President Vladimir Putin slammed U.S. plans to retaliate for Russia’s election hacking but said he would not toss out U.S. diplomats in turn. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 12:02 Brooks and Corn on Obama's active final weeks and the Trump-Putin 'bromance' By PBS News Hour In foreign affairs, it was not a quiet few days leading up to the New Year's weekend -- from Secretary of State John Kerry’s blunt parting speech about Israel to President Obama’s announcement of retaliation against the Kremlin for election… Continue watching
Dec 30 Timeline: Three decades of diplomatic spats between U.S. and Moscow By Robert Burns, Associated Press U.S. relations with Moscow during and after the Cold War have been marred by diplomatic dustups ranging from espionage scandals to an Olympics boycott. Continue reading
Dec 30 Putin says Russia won't expel U.S. diplomats in response to sanctions By Josh Lederman, Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press In a statement Friday on the Kremlin's web site, Putin referred to the sanctions as a "provocation aimed to further undermine Russian-American relations." But he also said that Moscow would not be ousting American diplomats. Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch 51:51 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 29, 2016 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, the Obama administration strikes back, issuing new sanctions on Russia for meddling in the U.S. Also: A Russian-brokered cease-fire in Syria, the global economic outlook of a newly tapped Trump adviser, how a California county is… Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch 3:37 News Wrap: Obama announces U.S. retaliation against Russia for election meddling By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, President Obama announced a range of actions meant to punish Russia for election meddling, including sanctions on Russian intelligence services and top officials in the unit that ordered the hacks. Also, Iraqi security forces launched… Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch 10:15 What it means that the U.S. is not part of the Syria cease-fire By PBS News Hour There is a new cease-fire agreement in Syria, but this time without the U.S. at the negotiating table. Will it last when so many others have failed? William Brangham speaks with Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East… Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch 6:11 U.S. retaliation meant to expose, dissuade increasing Russian aggression By PBS News Hour The Obama administration wanted to send a message to Russia and top levels of its government: there will be consequences for election meddling and other aggressions. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Lisa Monaco, special assistant to the president, about the intended… Continue watching